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#TRAGEDY: A six-week-old baby has died in the US, becoming one of the world’s youngest victims of the coronavirus.
#UK: A further 569 people have died in the UK from Covid-19. A total of 33,718 people have tested positive across the UK
#DONATIONS: Country music star Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to help fund coronavirus research.
PARTING SHOT
Context is everything in the coronavirus pandemic.
So when we look at an unemployment, or reduced employment rate of 500,000 people…
“Now, to give you some sort of context on that,” economist Dermot O’Leary said today, “relative to the global financial crisis, it took about three years for an increase of that scale. The peak back in 2011 was 450,000.”
Here’s the corresponding chart for the US. At least we’re all in the same boat, I suppose?
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It might be a good idea to warn people about the dangers of flushing wet wipes, make up removal pads etc down the loo. Some estates have an infrastructure built in the sixties and seventies before these things even existed, so the presence of these items in the waste system was never factored into the design and they regularly block up .; It tends to be the same people who have a problem, despite not being the culprits, especially if their home is at the end of a row.
@Liz O’Neill: youz a reading ma mind Lizzy…
also body wipes used by home helpers to look after their clients are often flushed down toilets but they do not dissolve like loo paper and are a huge cause of blockages…. also pouring grease from cooking is a “recipe” for disaster.
@JG: Yes! The dreaded ‘fatbergs’.
Also, if you’re in a hard-water area, stick to glycerine-based hand wash & shower washes. Traditional soap only causes a hard scale buildup which is a chore to remove.
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